Hi all I was wondering what you would think of this idea. I'm of the mind that I probably am not smart enough and/or have the time to invest to beat the market so I pretty much think that an index fund would be my best choice. However for the past several years I've been buying single stocks in my wife and mine's IRA. At first I was using the dogs of the dow strategy but just picking a few of them instead of all 5 until I did some research and it seemed that that sounded like a lot of datamining hokum. Anyway since I've just bought a few stocks that were trading low (ones that had dropped the most % wise in the last year) and so far we have 10 or 11 DOW (or former DOW) stocks. Anyway my thinking is that this strategy would be a good one b...(more)